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Performance at 7:30PM followed by an opening night reception
The Runaways Lab present two workshop performances of Joyelle McSweeney’s “Dead Youth”, or, “The Leaks.” The play is set aboard a hijacked containership upon which Julian Assange leads a chorus of Dead Youth—youngsters killed in violent circumstances such as war, factories, or senior prom—to Magnetic Island to upload them to the Internet before they decay. Premiering “Dead Youth”, or, “The Leaks” marks the Runaways first collaboration with acclaimed polymath-writer McSweeney, whose best works, “like a great horror film, calls [our fears] up from the depths to the shuddering twilit surface”, according to the La Review of Books.
Since the Runaways first live reading of “Dead Youth” in early 2015, the currents of world affairs have intensified. From the election of Donald Trump and the proliferation of fake news and Wikileaks to the (re)emergence of white nationalism. Our contemporary moment makes a play that brings to light the veiled violence that makes capitalism possible all the more urgent. McSweeney writes like it’s the end of the world and in face of the void, art-making gains urgency. It asks difficult questions and erects circuitries among disparate disciplines.
CAST
Dylan Fahoome
Will Green
Candace Hundell
Ronen Kohn
Quenna Lené
Gannon Reedy
Jo Schaffer
Maggie Vaughn
BUTOH INTERVENTION
Sara Zalek
MEAT DEITY
Mariel Harari
PRODUCER
Olivia Lilley
MOVEMENT CAPTAIN
Will Green
SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION
Nick Meryhew
DRAMATURGY & SET DESIGN
Jack Gruszczynski
PLAYWRIGHT
Joyelle McSweeney
DIRECTOR
Logan Breitbart
ARTIST BIO
The Runaways Lab is a Chicago theater company that produces work free from expectations of traditional theatrical performance. Our audience engages with the thrilling, DIY nature of our theatre that is stripped to basic carnal and emotional experiences.
In 2012 Runaways founder, Olivia Lilley, ran away from her home in Chicago to follow a touring rock band to Nashville. She abandoned the tour and found herself in a Los Angeles mansion where she directed her original play, “Those Whom the Gods Love.” Inspired by the freedom and self-discovery she experienced as a runaway, she founded The Runaways Lab Theater in Chicago.
The first Runaways’ play “That’s What Makes Her an Idol” opened at Swerve Mansion, a now defunct “punk house” located in Chicago’s west-side, in late 2012. In 2013 Lilley moved into a former tattoo parlor and pornography dungeon and remade it into a performance space called The Parlor. Inspired by the literary voices reading and convening at The Parlor, Lilley created blasphemous adaptations of classic texts by Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Schiller, and the Beats. Lilley’s lease ended at the Parlor at the end of 2014.
Without an artistic home, the Runaways utilized experimental rehearsal processes and promenade-style performances, adapting Goethe’s “Faust” into a traveling play, performing in households, bars, underground performance venues, and an abandoned soup-can factory. In 2016, the Runaways created a theatrical experience that conflated a typical night at the theater with incarceration in our interactive play, “Jail”, that performed at the Curious Theater Branch’s 27th Annual Rhino Fest. We also premiered the first annual “Doing Drugs and Dying in Space Ritual”, a play festival in the basement of Iridium Clothing Co. In the fall, body-swapping time-traveling “Mary Shelley Sees the Future” premiered in the fall at Outerspace, and “Goddamn Geniuses” will open at Voice of the City in February.
Tickets: https://high-concept-labs.ticketleap.com/runaways/.20170610T19300020170610T223000+41.850707;-87.658059High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary Chicago @ 2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608, USA0Runaways Lab: Dead Youth, or, The Leaksexternalthumbnail;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/runaways-260x180.jpg;260;180;1,medium;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/runaways-298x300.jpg;298;300;1,large;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/runaways-1019x1024.jpg;770;774;1,full;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/runaways.jpg;1705;1714;experimental theater,performance,runaways,theater$10 Suggested Donationhttps://high-concept-labs.ticketleap.com/runaways/ai1ec-20135@highconceptlaboratories.org20180222T044723ZShowing/Exhibition,Sponsored Artist Program
Performance at 7:30PM followed by a closing night reception
The Runaways Lab present two workshop performances of Joyelle McSweeney’s “Dead Youth”, or, “The Leaks.” The play is set aboard a hijacked containership upon which Julian Assange leads a chorus of Dead Youth—youngsters killed in violent circumstances such as war, factories, or senior prom—to Magnetic Island to upload them to the Internet before they decay. Premiering “Dead Youth”, or, “The Leaks” marks the Runaways first collaboration with acclaimed polymath-writer McSweeney, whose best works, “like a great horror film, calls [our fears] up from the depths to the shuddering twilit surface”, according to the La Review of Books.
Since the Runaways first live reading of “Dead Youth” in early 2015, the currents of world affairs have intensified. From the election of Donald Trump and the proliferation of fake news and Wikileaks to the (re)emergence of white nationalism. Our contemporary moment makes a play that brings to light the veiled violence that makes capitalism possible all the more urgent. McSweeney writes like it’s the end of the world and in face of the void, art-making gains urgency. It asks difficult questions and erects circuitries among disparate disciplines.
CAST
Dylan Fahoome
Will Green
Candace Hundell
Ronen Kohn
Quenna Lené
Gannon Reedy
Jo Schaffer
Maggie Vaughn
BUTOH INTERVENTION
Sara Zalek
MEAT DEITY
Mariel Harari
PRODUCER
Olivia Lilley
MOVEMENT CAPTAIN
Will Green
SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION
Nick Meryhew
DRAMATURGY & SET DESIGN
Jack Gruszczynski
PLAYWRIGHT
Joyelle McSweeney
DIRECTOR
Logan Breitbart
ARTIST BIO
The Runaways Lab is a Chicago theater company that produces work free from expectations of traditional theatrical performance. Our audience engages with the thrilling, DIY nature of our theatre that is stripped to basic carnal and emotional experiences.
In 2012 Runaways founder, Olivia Lilley, ran away from her home in Chicago to follow a touring rock band to Nashville. She abandoned the tour and found herself in a Los Angeles mansion where she directed her original play, “Those Whom the Gods Love.” Inspired by the freedom and self-discovery she experienced as a runaway, she founded The Runaways Lab Theater in Chicago.
The first Runaways’ play “That’s What Makes Her an Idol” opened at Swerve Mansion, a now defunct “punk house” located in Chicago’s west-side, in late 2012. In 2013 Lilley moved into a former tattoo parlor and pornography dungeon and remade it into a performance space called The Parlor. Inspired by the literary voices reading and convening at The Parlor, Lilley created blasphemous adaptations of classic texts by Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Schiller, and the Beats. Lilley’s lease ended at the Parlor at the end of 2014.
Without an artistic home, the Runaways utilized experimental rehearsal processes and promenade-style performances, adapting Goethe’s “Faust” into a traveling play, performing in households, bars, underground performance venues, and an abandoned soup-can factory. In 2016, the Runaways created a theatrical experience that conflated a typical night at the theater with incarceration in our interactive play, “Jail”, that performed at the Curious Theater Branch’s 27th Annual Rhino Fest. We also premiered the first annual “Doing Drugs and Dying in Space Ritual”, a play festival in the basement of Iridium Clothing Co. In the fall, body-swapping time-traveling “Mary Shelley Sees the Future” premiered in the fall at Outerspace, and “Goddamn Geniuses” will open at Voice of the City in February.
Tickets: https://high-concept-labs.ticketleap.com/runaways/.20170617T19300020170617T220000+41.850707;-87.658059High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary Chicago @ 2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608, USA0The Runaways: Dead Youth, or, The Leaksexternalthumbnail;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/runaways-260x180.jpg;260;180;1,medium;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/runaways-298x300.jpg;298;300;1,large;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/runaways-1019x1024.jpg;770;774;1,full;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/runaways.jpg;1705;1714;experimental,play,theater$10 Suggested Donationhttps://high-concept-labs.ticketleap.com/runaways/ai1ec-20209@highconceptlaboratories.org20180222T044723ZSeason Send-off,Sponsored Artist Program
Join High Concept Labs’ Spring 2017 Sponsored Artists on June 24th to celebrate the conclusion of a successful and transformative season. Catch new works by Andy Slater, Emma Draves, Runaways Lab and Amanda VanValkenburg. Enjoy drinks, light bites, and performances as you interact with the Artists, Staff, and engaged Audiences of High Concept Labs.
ABOUT THE SEASON SEND-OFF
HCL is proud to support ten artists and ensembles for two, four-month seasons each year, and our biannual SEASON SEND-OFF is your chance to enjoy the development of their work. The showcase evening highlights the growth and transformation of several current season’s Sponsored Artists, providing you with a glimpse into both their process and the outcome of their labors. HCL is also proud to honor the work of a past Sponsored Artist for their incredible achievements since leaving HCL.
Amanda VanValkenburg’s “Unnatural Disasters” turns 3D gaming into film with mood-driven vignettes exploring the anxiety of a contemporary world and the cathartic desire to see it destroyed. The expanding and contracting nature of capitalism creates a certain number of these abandoned buildings.
Emma Draves presents “Listen…” “My own explorations are carried out through the frame of femininity and parenthood but artistic collaborators will shift the work with narrative contributions. At the heart of this work is stability in risk, aggressive viscerality, rowdy corporeality, and rituals of comfort.”
Utilizing sounds recorded throughout Mana Contemporary Chicago’s 4th and 5th floors, legally blind musician, audio engineer, author, and disabilities advocate Andy Slater will lead audiences on a sound walk for his piece, Sound As Sight.
Runaways Lab Theatre presents excerpts from Joyelle McSweeney’s “badly-wired allegory” poetry-play, “Dead Youth, or, The Leaks.” Fresh off of two exhilarating performances, this is your last chance to witness this ambtious company at their best.
Tickets: https://high-concept-labs.ticketleap.com/spring17sendoff/.20170624T19300020170624T210000+41.850707;-87.658059High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary Chicago @ 2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608, USA0Spring Season Send-offexternalthumbnail;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Send-off_header-copy-260x180.png;260;180;1,medium;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Send-off_header-copy-300x201.png;300;201;1,large;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Send-off_header-copy.png;770;515;,full;http://highconceptlaboratories.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Send-off_header-copy.png;1013;678;amanda vanvalkenburg,andy slater,dance,emma draves,music,runaways lab,send off,sound,sponsored artist program,theater10https://high-concept-labs.ticketleap.com/spring17sendoff/